Nicole Maloof Twomey - Contemporary Artist
Nicole Maloof Twomey is a Washington, DC based artist and MFA graduate from American University. Twomey was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes when she was four years old; by working with hard candy, and medical supplies, along with plaster, paint, and resin, she creates striking artworks that are humorous, ironic, childlike, and disturbing simultaneously.
Twomey is the Associate Director at HEMPHILL Artworks in Washington, DC; she is also an artist at Crestworth Art Studios. She has participated in exhibitions with Transformer, Touchstone Gallery and the Washington Studio School in Washington, DC, The Stamp Gallery at The University of Maryland, Fountain Street Gallery in Boston, MA and Hera Gallery in Wakefield, RI among others. Her large free standing sculpture, Self Portrait: 19 years and 112 days, 2,335 Autosoft 90 Infusion Sets and counting, was on view at Touchstone Gallery in downtown Washington, DC from January 12, 2024 - February 19, 2024 and was reviewed by Mark Jenkins for The Washington Post. She was also included in the NYC Affordable Art Fair in March 2024 with Treat Gallery and Midwest Nice. Twomey has an upcoming solo exhibition at Glen Echo in March 2026.
Photo Credit: Tyra Mitchell, 2024
Education
2020 - 2022
MFA, American University, Washington, DC.
2015 - 2019
BA in Studio Art and Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA.
Selected Exhibitions
Current & Upcoming
Solo Exhibition, Glen Echo Park, Bethesda, MD, March 2026
2025
Portraits of the Most Known, The Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Care, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.
2024
CONFAB, Washington Studio School, Washington, DC.
STABLE 5 Year Anniversary, Maketto, Washington, DC.
Summer Exhibition, Rat Gallery, Washington, DC.
On Resin and Consequence, Treat Gallery, New York, NY.
Affordable Art Fair NYC, Midwest Nice / Treat Gallery, New York, NY.
Exploring Chronic Illness and Medicine Through Art, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI.
Figure, Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC.
Intersection: Identity and Culture, Falls Church Arts Gallery, Falls Church, VA.
2023
The Invincible Visible, Transformer’s 19th Annual Exhibition & Benefit Auction, Washington, DC.
(Not) Strictly Painting, McLean Project for the Arts, McLean, VA.
About Face, Fountain Street Gallery, Boston, MA.
nice; 01, Johnson Fine Arts Center Gallery, Northern State University, Aberdeen, SD.
Our Bodies, Ourselves-50 Years On,Upstream Gallery, Hastings-On-Hudson, NY.
Hotter 'N Hell, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA.
Used, Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA.
Glowing, Tapiial Virtual, Santiago de Chile.
Illuminating the Beauty of Science, Suboart Magazine.
The Limited Palette, Rhode Island Watercolor Society, Pawtucket, RI.
Sick Artists Club, Things I have learned the hard way.
Winter Virtual Group Exhibition, Royal Blue Gallery.
Food Story, Gallerium Art, Ontario, Canada.
2022
Collective Worlds, Juried Exhibition, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI.
in•position, MFA Thesis Exhibition, American University Museum, Washington, DC.
What a Relief: small relief sculptures, Juried Exhibition, Phillips@THEARC, Washington, DC.
Sweet Tooth, Juried Exhibition, Torpedo Factory Art Center, Alexandria, VA.
Regional Juried Exhibition, Juried Exhibition, Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital, Washington, DC.
FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD, Online Group Exhibition, Cultural Center of Cape Cod, South Yarmouth, MA.
Mind Body Spirit, Online Group Exhibition, J Mane Gallery.
Unity, Online Group Exhibition, Art Fluent, Boston, MA.
2021
Envisioning, Transformer Auction, Washington, DC.
Ruins, Still Point Arts Gallery, Online Group Exhibition, Brunswick, ME.
Residencies & Awards
2023
Emerging Woman Artist Award First Runner Up, Arts to Hearts Project.
Honorable Mention, nice;01, Midwest Nice, Aberdeen, SD.
2022
2021 - 2022
2020 - 2021
Online Artist in Residence, GlogauAIR Artistic On-line Program, Berlin, Germany
Babs Van Swearingen Memorial Award, American University, Washington, DC
Babs Van Swearingen Memorial Award, American University, Washington, DC
Publications
2024
In the galleries: Focusing on the many guises of the human form, Mark Jenkins for The Washington Post, February 9, 2024.
Canvas Rebel, Meet Nicole Maloof, April 8, 2024.
2023
Suboart Magazine, Summer Issue, 2023.
Studio Visit Magazine, Volumes 53 & 54, 2023.
2021
2020
Still Point Arts Quarterly, Issue No. 44, Winter 2021.
CouCou Collective, Issue 1, June 16, 2020.